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Just the Stats, Ma'am: Labor Day Saturday Canvass Wrap Up [1]
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Date: 2025-09-06
Did you enjoy your Labor Day weekend? By convention — our own rules of the road, as it were — Labor Day is our traditional ending point for Early Organizing. In an election year, campaigns and coordinated efforts start full speed with their own field plans. Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [dated website] grassroots
volunteers chose to canvass in only 3 states during the holiday weekend: New Jersey and Virginia, where we’ve been building towards the statewide elections in November, and Texas, where we are responding to the rigged districting gambit by Gov. Abbott, at the request of president felon.
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One of the questions we’ve had, given the subdued attitude of Democrats online and among donors, was whether volunteers would continue to come out week end and week out to knock on doors. That question has been answered. Now there is no doubt that Democratic and progressive activists are driven to respond to Trump’s F*ck America First policies and drive the economy into the ground.
Even before the Quorum Break in Texas, Hope Springs were coming out in impressive mid-cycle numbers. If anything, it seems that volunteers are equally — or more — motivated this Summer. Granted, last Summer, we struggled through the Biden debate debacle and the mid-Summer crisis about whether he would continue to run for re-election. And that did effect volunteer turnout. We saw a huge dip in turnout after the debate that only grew back slowly after Vice-Pres. Harris’ announcement. That paralysis — and Trump’s shooting — made the results almost inevitable, unfortunately.
We continue to see that voter contact works. When we’ve done spot checks whether the voters we’ve talked to actually voted, we always find that they are voting at significantly higher rates than the norm in their state. Which makes the efforts in Texas all the more important, because the illusion that Texas is a red state is built on the fact that Texas is a low voter-turnout state. Our efforts in Wisconsin and Minnesota, by contrast, don’t have the same relevance.
But the fact is that they impression volunteers leave with the voter, especially at this stage in the election cycle, is more important than what they say — because that’s what voters remember. Granted, Hope Springs makes it easy for volunteers to leave good impressions — even though some do feel like we’ve loaded them down with paperwork at first glance.
We continue to allow those volunteers who want to to take their walk sheets home for follow-up contacts for voters who weren’t home when they stopped by. Some of our volunteers do this, but by no means all. But it allows us to build out more voter input into the voter data-base.
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